Please help these local kids have a Happy Holiday!

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“I can’t tell you how thankful our families are – it really means a lot!!”

The 2017 River’s Cares for Kids program works with Big Brothers, Big Sisters agencies in Brattleboro, Greenfield and Amherst to help provide Christmas gifts to 185 local kids. Won’t you help a local kid have a merrier Christmas this year?

Please visit our gift list right here. Pick a kid (or kids) to give a gift to. Follow the simple instructions on our new site and bring the unwrapped, labeled gift to one of our dropoff locations:

– Amherst, The Toy Box, 201 North Pleasant Street.
– Brattleboro, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Windham County, 32 Walnut Street.
– Easthampton, Galaxy Restaurant, 60 Main Street.
– Greenfield, World Eye Bookshop, 156 Main Street.
– Hadley, Whole Foods, 327 Russell Street (Route 9).
– Northampton, Northampton Brewery, 11 Brewster Ct.
– Northampton, The River studios, 15 Hampton Ave.

Thank you to our sponsors, who help make this possible:  Alternative Recycling, Northampton Brewery,  Galaxy, Northeast Solar, The Toy Box,  and Whole Foods Hadley,

Full details and gift list for Cares for Kids 2017 right here.

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